It Ain't Easy

From Daily Tech:

...trying to order an iPhone 4 from Apple's website this morning has been an exercise in futility.

The Apple Store came online for pre-orders around 4am EST, but was quickly bombarded with requests. Many people trying to get an iPhone 4 were greeted with error messages or notices stating "Please wait while we access your AT&T account information."

After a few hours of errors and polite messages, Apple took the site down around 6am and put up its friendly "We'll be back soon" Post-it note. Since that time, it's been up and down for the past two and a half hours. Currently, the site is down yet again.

To add insult to injury, those looking to get their hands on a white iPhone 4 can't even pre-order it from Apple (or anywhere else). Apple apparently doesn't have enough stock to satisfy demand, so it's just going to make folks wait a while longer before its makes the white 16GB and 32GB SKUs available.

It's not always easy being a first-day adopter. See the hoops we must jump through sometimes? Sheesh.